Audio in other than Images (txt, buttons, icons)

  • For my trials in developing a Dutch Language Course I am using the DIVI plugin.

    There are two ways within that Theme to add audio.

    1. the audio button. After adding a link, it opens a player. In my case Quicktime is opening in a new tab. That causes the learning text disappear.
    2. the Audio Module. This plays the audio in the same page.

    Both options don’t work for me.

    The 2nd solution with the DIVI Audio Module takes up a lot of space as you can see on this test page: https://justcase.eu/index.php/nl/test-met-audio/ At lease one quarter of a full screen.

    What I would like to achieve is the method used in Easy Japanese Lessons, from NHK: https://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/english/learn/list/1.html The Japanese lessons give a much cleaner user-experience: click once and you’ll hear the word(s) or sentences. And the user can click as often as he/she wants, thus repeating the process until he/she is satisfied that the pronunciation is right.

    I have not found a suitable audio plugin in the WP directory, although I tried several. The one that attracts me most is the Plugin from MEOW: https://apps.meow.fr/audio-story-images/ It adds a little audio button, but it is intended to be working only for adding audio to images. Although languages courses DO need images, they also need audio for text.

    To achieve nice formatting for the text I need tables. I’d like to use EXCEL, but it converts only to HTML and I end up losing functions and, again it opens an Audio Player in another Tab, thus preventing the use from seeing the associated text.

    To get nice tables I’m using another Plugin called TablePress. Take a look here: https://tablepress.org/ But… it does not have an option to insert images, sound or anything else. Not into a row, not into the header/footer, and NOT into a cell.

    DIVI itself does NOT provide a Table option. Strange, because in every other aspect I find DIVI – and EXTRA – the most flexible Themes ALL THE WAY ROUND. Take a look for yourselves at: https://www.elegantthemes.com

    In the attachment you’ll find a screenshot of my “ideal” solution.

    Thanks to you all!

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  • Plugin Contributor Thomas

    (@kywyz)

    Hallo,

    Sorry for the late reply, that’s an interesting idea to add a way to play an audio file to some text,

    Thing is this plugin was really made for images since we are both photographers and wanted to experiment things by mixing pictures and audio files,

    However, it could be a good idea to create another plugin that creates a shortcode that you can use via a shortcode like [audiotext audio=”https://hello.com/audiofile.mp4″%5DThe text[/audiotext] and that would produce a link : The text and when you click on it, the audio plays directly.

    Best regards,

    Thread Starter cees.loppersum

    (@ceesloppersum)

    Hi Thomas,

    Thanks for your feedback. I’m not sure I fully understand your reply. So I have some questions. I like the existing image-plugin because it only shows a little audio icon in the picture. You have understood my question perfectly! I would like to achieve that for text. But, I’m not a developer. So, “plugin” I understand. “Shortcode” is a new concept for me. Who would develop it and where to place it once it exists, is where I’m completely in the dark!

    Please enlighten me!

    Once more, thanks a lot! The existing audio plugins always take up space and open some sort of a player. Your’s does not.

    Sincerely
    Cees.

    Please check this for clarification: https://www.dropbox.com/s/y65gnf0goi62ypm/Screenshot%202016-10-19%2023.05.25.png?dl=0

    To me it wouldn’t matter if the audio button would have to be placed inside or outside the text. A “play automatically on clicking the sentence” would be wonderful though.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by cees.loppersum. Reason: some typos corrected
    Plugin Contributor Thomas

    (@kywyz)

    Hello,

    Sorry for the once again late reply, and sorry for the not clear enough message too haha

    So, basically, a plugin is … a plugin. And a shortcode is something that is defined by WordPress as a part of the “plugin territory” ( there is the “theme territory” as well ), so a shortcode can be a feature of a plugin, and what it does, is that by writing something like [shortcode][/shortcode] in your posts / page, wordpress detect it and replace it by some fancy stuff defined by the plugin author. This is what a shortcode is, and I guess there is some better explanations out there if I’m still not clear enough.

    However, I’m glad you like the fact that there is no audio players involved ??
    And I spoke with Jordy about your idea of adding audio to text, he actually thinks that it would be pretty useful, and so do I. So we could think of a way to add this feature to our plugin. But as I said, we have a stupid, yet quite big, problem here : the name of the plugin ! This one is clearly for images, so we have to think about recreating it under a more general name, or to create a different one for text, which is a bit stupid.

    But we will try to find a way to implement the audio / text feature ??

    Cheers,

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